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Status Future consideration
Workspace Instana
Categories IBM i Sensor
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 12, 2022

Instana use case for IBMi monitoring

Dear Instana team,

We would like to have this use case supported by Instana please:

We would like to monitor if some critical IBMi jobs (that we would specify by name) is running or not

I have researched the options provided out of the box by Instana already and concluded it’s not supported out of the box (Please correct me if i’m wrong?)

I also started looking at the custom metrics option provided by Instana (integration with statsd in particular) but I still have no idea how to do it or if it’s feasible at all.

Can you please have this use case supported out of the box by Instana?

Or if it's already supported, can you please give us some suggestions and guidance about the best way to realize this use case with the current version of Instana.

Many thanks,

Mehdi

Idea priority Medium